Measuring device.



J. F. TEYKL & K. WAGENER.

MEASURING DEVIGE.

M PLIOATION FILED Nomea, 1907.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

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MEASUBING DEVICE. APPLIUATIN FILED Nov. ao, 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT omnes.

JOHN F. TEYKL AND KENNY WAGENER, 0F SMITHVILLE, TEXAS; SAID WAGENER ASSIGNOR TO SAID TEYKL.

MEASURING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN F. TEYKL and KENNY WAGENER, citizens of the United States, residing at Smithville, in the county of Bastrop and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Measuring Devices; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to new and useful improvements in measuring devices and more particularly to that class adapted to be used for measurin fabrics such as embroidery, laces, or the li ie and our object is to provide means for measuring the fabric as it is unwound from the bolt and rewound on a cardboard or reel employed for retaining the measured fabrics.

A further object is to provide means for rewinding the measured fabric onto the cardboard or reel.

A still further object is to provide means for increasing or decreasing the speed of the measuring device when cards of dierent lengths are encountered.

Other obj ects and `advantages will be hereinafter referred to and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings which are made a part of this application, Figure 1 is a side elevation artly in section of our improved form of measuring device and the supporting standards therefor. Fig. 2 is an edge elevation thereof, showing a portion of the device in section. Fig. 3 is a sectional view as seen on line 3 3, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view on an enlarged scale of the speed changing gear, and, Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view as seen on line 5-5, Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings in which similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, 1 and 2 indicate standards, which are preferably arranged in pairs and secured to opposite sides of base blocks 3 and 4, respectively, the upper ends of said standards being secured by means of a beam 5, which extends laterally across the tops of said standards and are secured thereto in any preferred manner.

Extending laterally through the standards 1 and 2 are shafts 6 and 7, respectively, the inner ends of said shafts being provided with channel plates 8 and 9, respectively, said plates being adapted to receive the usual form of card board 10 upon which to wind the dfabric 11 while the same is being measure The shafts 6 and 7 are rotated to Wind the fabric by means of a crank 12, secured to the projecting end of the shaft 6 and the shaft 7 is of sufficient length to be adjustedlongitudinally through the standards to compensate for card-boards of various widths.

The shaft 6 has fixed thereto, between the standards 1, a gear 13, with which is adapted to mesh a pinion 14 carried by a bar 15, said bar extending at right angles to the shaft and having one of its ends rotatably mounted in a supporting head 16, which is in turn pivotally mounted in a bracket 17 fixed to the inner face of one of the standards 1, a portion of the bar being square in cross section to receive a gear 18, the hub of said gear likewise having a square o ening to receive the bar so that said gear wi be caused to rotate with the bar and at the same time move longitudinally thereon, the gear being adapted to mesh with cogs 19 on the face of a disk 20, said disk being rotatably mounted on the shaft 6 adjacent the gear 13, the object of movably mounting the gear 18 on the bar 15 being to increase the speed of the disk, which is accomplished by arranging the cogs 19 in series from the center to a point adjacent the outer edge of the disk, said cogs being arranged to regulate the speed of the disk with the employment of card-boards of various lengths, the gear 18 being moved outwardly or inwardly on the bar 15 to compensate for a shorter or longer card-board.

The various rows of cogs on the disk are numbered, so that by ascertaining the length of the card-board supported by the plates 8 and 9 and setting the gear 18 on the series of cogs numbered to correspond with the length of the card-board, the fabric, as it is wound on said card board, will be accurately measured.

The gear 18 is moved longitudinally on the bar 15 by means of a controlling handle 21, the inner end of which is provided with ngers 22, the free ends of said fingers being bent inwardly to engage the gear 18 between the rim and hub thereof, whereby the gear may readily rotate, but will be moved longitudinally on the bar by directing lateral pressure on the controlling handle.

The free end of the controlling handle is graduating numeral 1 on the disk are exhibextended throughV a slot 23 in the outer face of a casing 24 and the lower ed e ofsaid slot is provided with a lurality o notches` 25, which register with t e rows of cogs 19 on the face of the disk 20, said notches beingconsecutively numbered from the outer to the inner end of the slot so that the gear 18 may be immediately set to pro erly measure the fabric as it is being woun,4 o on the card-board, the length of the card-board being first ascertained and the controlling handle 2,1 engaged With the' notch having the illllflb 95?v therebel 10W designating the length .in inches Of the cardboard and when thegear 1S has been moved to the proper positionand the handle 21 engaged the notch at this point, said gear be positively held in its adjusted position until the controlling handle is again raised into 'the slot 23.

` When the gear 1,8`is to be shifted upon the bar 15, the outer end of the halfisswunglaterally away from the disk, so that the gear will.' be Gilt Of the path 0f the @OPS 611th@ disk, wenn or the bar, protruding through a S110@ 26 inv the Aedge ofthe casing 24 and held in its inward or outward position by placing the same ni'notches'27 formed at each'end of the 81,0.,526'.. v e i,

Thedisl 201s Preferably five yards in @ir- @umferer 'and the ad@ or. theA disk having th toss thereon's Stated t0 the .verdeel fractions theref, so that as the `disk is rotated, the characters on the face of the disk desiA thefyards and fractions. thereof, are brought in alinement with a window 28 formed inthe outer standard 1 and, should the amoulnt of fabric4 required, exceedI five yards` in length, a dial 2.9, is rotatably mount.- ed. Qn the' outerY Standard. 1 adiacent the up: per fnd. thereef, Seid dial being graduated in sptes. Qi live yards; each, the periphery 0f.. said dial having spokes 30KA thereon equal in number to the number of divisions on the vmeasured andthe, graduations on thefaoe, of.

thehdisk will indicate lthe fraction of yards bovefive yards wound upon the card-board as an illustration, if 11 yardsl are to bek measured, the disk 2O is rotated until the graduating mark 10 on the dial 29, and the ited through the'window28, thereby', showing that 1`1fyardsjof the fabric have'bfeenwound u 'fon the card-,board employed'to receive t e measured fabricl' ,'Rotatably mounted inthe u per ends. of the standards 1` and 2, is, a sha t 32 one` end. of which is provided with an 'auxiliary channel platev 33, which is Vsimilar to the channel; plates 8. and 9, and is adapted to engage and su port a bolt of fabric and unwind'the faricfrom the card-board as it is being wound onto the card-board supported by the channel plates 8 and 9 and to cause the fabric from the bolt to unwind co-incident to the re- Winding of the same on the op osite cardboard, a sprocket-pinion 34 is xed to the shaft 32 around which takes a sprocket chain 35 the Opposite end of the chain being ex tended around a sprocket wheel 36 on the shaft 6, so that the cardfboard carried by the channel plate 33 will be rotated in unison with the vcard-board carried by the channel platesS and 9.

The. Shaft 3 7 on which the dial 29 is mounted is provided at its outer end with wings 38 so that the dial may be returned 'to its initial osition or to Zero after each measurement as been accomplished.

In applying our invention to use, a cardboard is nrstinserted between the channel lates 8 and 9. and the length of said cardboardascertained and the gear 18 moved longitudinally on the bar 15 until it is in en! 1 gagement the'proper series of 'cogs and secured in its adjusted position by entering the controlling handle into the, notch'corresponding with the co'gs'on the disk, vthus insuring. that the measuring device will prop;- erly register the length of fabric wound upon the card-board l l A cardboard Containing a bolt of the fabric is then secured in the auxiliary channel plate; 3,3 and the loose end of the fabric secured'in any preferred manner, to the 'cardfboard held the ohannelplates 8 and 9 when by rotating the shaft 6, through the, medium ofthe crank 12, the fabric will be wound onto; the card-board between the standards and unwound from the bolt earried by the auxiliary Channel Plate 33, the febficbils guided oiitofthewinding card-board in any preferred l manner, asI thehand'of the'operator.

' After the 'required number of yards have been wound on, the cardboard carried bythe plates 8 and 9., said ycard-board is removed and an additional. 'card-board inserted in its place, after which the measuring process'may be repeated. l It will1 thus be seen that I `have provided a very cheap and accunuiev forml ofmeasuring, device and one that may be employed for measuringv a variety of fabrics or's'imilar articles .and itwill further be seen that the parts ofthe. measuring'devicel may be adjusted to. accommodate receiving card-boards of various lengthsand Widths.

to rotatelsaid disk cofincident tothe rotationk of said shaft, whereby fabric wound on said card-board will be measured.

2. In a measuring device, the combination with standards of shafts rotatably mounted in said standards, one of said shafts being adjustable, means on said shafts to hold a fabric-retaining card-board, a disk loosely mounted on one of said shafts, cogs arranged in series on said disk, a bar extending at an angle from said shaft and having its inner end pivoted, means to rotate said bar and adjustable means on said bar adapted to coperate with the cogs on the disk and increase or decrease the speed of the disk.

3. In a measuring device, the combination with standards; of shafts rotatably mounted in said standards, means carried by said shafts to support a fabric-receiving cardboard, a disk rotatably mounted on one of said shafts, a gear fixed to said shaft, a bar extending at an angle to said shaft, means to pivotally anchor the inner end of said bar, a pinion on said bar adapted to mesh with said gear, cogs on the face of said disk arranged in series, a gear slidably mounted on said bar and adapted to rotate therewith, means to move said gear longitudinally of the bar and into engagement with the different series of cogs on the disk, whereby the speed of said disk may be increased or decreased and additional means to anchor the gear in its adjusted position.

4. In a measuring device, the combination with standards; of shafts rotatably mounted in said standards, means on said shafts to enga e and support a fabric-receiving reel, a dis rotatably mounted on one of said shafts,

cogs on one face of said disk arranged in se ries, a bar extending at right angles to said shaft and across the face of said disk, means to pivotally mount the inner end of said bar, whereby the outer end thereof may be moved towards or from the disk, means between said shaft and bar to rotate the bar, means at the outer end of the bar to hold the same in its adjusted position, a gear on said bar adapted to move longitudinally thereof and mesh with the series of cogs on the disk, a controlling handle engaging said gear and means to hold said gear in its adjusted position.

5. In a measuring device, the combination with standards 3 of shafts rotatably mounted in said standards, a disk loosely mounted on one of said shafts, said disk having graduations thereon, means to rotate said disk coincident to the rotation of said shafts, whereby the graduations on the disk will be brought to view, one of said standards having a window, through which said graduations may be observed, a dial rotatably mounted on one of said standards and having graduations thereon in multiples of the graduations on the disk and means interposed between said disk and dial to partially rotate the dial with each revolution of the disk.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN F. TEYKL. KENNY WAGENER. Witnesses:

W. F. KAHLDEN, E. C. WILLENBERG. 

